Antirefillable bottle.



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WITNESSES:

@NITE STATES .PATENT OFFICE.

, JACOB lVI. I-IOLLER, JR., AND WILLIAM F. EVER/HART, 0F PITTSBURGH,PENNSYLVANIA.

AN'IIREFILLABLE BOTTLE.

To aZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that we, JACOB M. HoLLnRp J r., and VVILLLAM F. Eviter-MRT,citizens of the United States of America, residing at Pittsburgh, in thecounty of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Antirefillable Bottles, of which thefollowing is a specification, reference being had therein to theaccompanying drawing.

rFhis invention relates to antireillable bottles, and the primary objectof the invention is to provide a bottle with positive and reliable meansin a manner as will be hereinafter set forth whereby the bottle cannotbe refilled and used without detection.

A further object of our invention is to furnish a bottle with a novelclosure or valve that will permit of the contents of the bottle z )beingeasily removed, but prevent matter from being placed in the bottle afterit has been opened.

@ur invention aims to eliminate the nefarious practice of unscrupulousmerchants in filling bottles or receptacles that once contained apopular brand of liquid with an inferior article and dispensing the sameas the original contents of the bottle. It is a well known fact thatbartenders andsaloon keepers often lill bottles that contained a popularbrand of liquid with an inferior liquid, and that suoli a practice isalso carried on by druggists in connection with patent medicines.Besides eliminating the above practice, we prevent bottles that oncecontained poisonous matter from being filled with other matter, therebypreventing the loss of life from such'practice.

Our invention will be hereinafter fully considered, particularly hedetail construction of the bottle and then claimed, and reference willnow be had to the drawing wherein there is illustrated a preferredembodiment of the invention, but it is to be understood that thestructural elements thereof are susceptible to such changes as fallwithin the scope of the appended claim.

In the drawing Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of a portion of abottle in accordance with our invention, Fig. 2 is a cross section takenon the line II-II of Fig. 1, Fig. 3 is a similar view taken on the lineIII- HI of Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 is a side elevation of disassembled partsof the bottle closure.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 1, 1911.

Patented June s, 1013.

Serial No. 666,011.

The reference numeral 1 denotes a portion of a bottle having a neck 2and an inwardly projecting liange 3 at the juncture of said neck and thebottle, said flange providing an annular seat l for a gasket orresilient ring 5.

6 denotes the depending sleeve of a circular valve support 7, said valvesupport being mounted upon the gasket 5 with the sleeve 6 extendingthrough said gasket. The valve support 7 is provided with an annularseat 8 at the uper end of the sleeve 6 and adapted to normally seatthereon is an inverted conical-shaped valvular member 9 having anannular flange 10 adapted to normally close the upper end of the sleeve6, said valvular member being movably mounted upon the seat 8.

11 denotes a housing having the lower edges thereof suitably connectedand seated upon the peripheral edges of the valve support 7, saidhousing having the top thereof provided with a plurality of openings 12and with a vertical stem 13. rIhe housing 12 is provided with a centraldepending conical-shaped guide 14 extending into the conical-shapedvalvular member 9 to retain the same upon the seat 8 to guide saidmember when unseated. The guide 14 is surr'ounded by an annularenlargement 15 which prevents the valvular member from completelyseating upon the housing.

16 denotes an oblong transverse enlargement intermediate the ends of thestem 13 and this enlargement is" provided with two longitudinal sockets17 and 18, the socket 17 being open at one end of the enlargement 16 andthe socket 1S open at the opposite end thereof. In these sockets arearranged compression springs 19 and pins 20, said springs normallyholding the pins 20 in a projected position whereby the ends of saidpins will engage in an annular groove 21 provided therefor in an annularoff-set portion 22 of the bottle neck 2.

28 denotes a circular head carried by the top of the stem 13 andprovided with a plurality of circumferentially arranged verticalopenings 2-1. Intermediate the head 23 and the enlargement 16 is anannular deflector 25, and intermediate the enlargement 16 and the top ofthe housing 11 is a similar detiector 26.

27 denotes an ordinary cork or stopper placed in the upper end of theneck 2.

been assembled and the gasket 5 placed upon the seat- 4, the bottleclosure in its entirety canbe `inserted in the bottle neck 2, with thepins in a retracted position on account `of engaging the inner Walls ofthe neck 2. immediately upon the closure being pushed downwardly toseatupon the gasket 5, the

pins 2O are released and through the me? dium ofthe springs 19, whichhave been held under tension by the outer ends of the pins engaging theinner Walls of the neck 2, said pins project into the annular groove 21of the annular off-set portion 22 of the bottle neck 2, thereby lockingthe closure Wit-hin the bottle. The valvular member 9 will be normallyseated by gravity, and its weight is' suflicient to preventsaid memberfrom Heating when liquid is poured into the bottle neck 2, consequentlythe upper end of the sleeve 6 is closed and the bottle cannot be lledafter the closure has been placed in posit-ion.

lVhen the cork 27 is removed and the bottle inverted to remove thecontents thereof, the valvular member 9 seats upon the enlargement 15and the guide 14 and there is sufficient space for the contents of thebottle to pass around the peripheral edges of the flange 10 of saidmember, through the openings 12 of the housing 11 and the openings 241of the head 23.

To prevent a piece of Wire or an instrument from being inserted in thebottle neck to elevate the valvular member 9, the head 23 is providedwith the small opening or deflectors 25 and 26, these deflectors makingit almost impossible for a piece of wire to be inserted in the openings12 to engage under the flange 10 and elevate the member 9.

It will be noted that the valvular member 9 can shift upon the upper endof the sleeve 6, irrespective of its position upon the seat 8, the upperend of the sleeve 6 is closed.

The bottle closure can be made of light and durable non-corrosive metal,porcelain or other material not susceptible to any chemical action ofthe part of the contents of the bottle.

lVhatwe claim .is

In an anti-relillable bottle, a valve seat forming member adapted to bearranged within the neck of a bottle, a shiftable valve mounted uponsaid seat, a housing mounted against and projecting from said member andhaving its top formed with openings, a depending valve guiding meansintegral with said top, a stem projecting upwardly from said. top andprovided intermediate its ends with a rectangular annularly disposedenlargement, oppositely disposed spring controlled pins mounted in saiden largement and adapted to engage in the neck of a bottle forconnecting the stem thereto, a perforated head integral with the upperend of the stem and of a diameter to engage the inner face of the bottleneck, and circu ar dellectors integral with the stem,

one of said deiectors interposed between the enlargement and the headand the other between the enlargement and the housing, said defectors ofless diameter than the head.

In testimony whereof we aliix our signatures in the presence of twowitnesses.

JACOB M. HOLLER, Jn. VILLIAM FA EVER Hi'iRT. litnesses MAX H. Snonovrrz,CHRISTINA T. Hoon.

Gies f this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing theCommissioner of Patents` Washington, D. I"

